HTML <menu> tag

HTML <menu> tag specifies a list or menu of commands that a user can perform or activate. It is used for creating context menu as well as lists menu.

A <menu> element can contain one or more <li> or <menuitem> elements within it.

Note: The <menu> tag was deprecated in HTML 4.01 and again included in HTML 5.1 specification. But it will better to ignore it as it is experimental and not supported by many browsers.

Syntax

Following are some specifications about the HTML <menu> tag

Example

Output:

Attribute:

Tag-specific attributes:

• popup
• toolbar
• context

Attribute	Value	Description
label	text	It specifies the label for the menu.
type	It specifies the type of the menu in an HTML document.

Global attribute:

The <menu> tag supports the global attributes in HTML

Event attribute:

The <menu> tag supports the event attributes in HTML.

Supporting Browsers

Element	Chrome	IE	Firefox	Opera	Safari
<menu>	No	No	Yes	No	No